14 06 08 - 23:02

The House Hunt is Complete

Well, we did it.  We bought a house.  We're probably one of the last of our friends to get on the home ownership bandwagon, owing to the fact that we lived in a church manse for most of the past ten years.  But none of the churches in Halifax have manses any more, seems ministers want equity just like everyone else.  And my Scottish-descended husband has been itching about his lack of equity for a few years, and was really chafing about having to pay rent.

So we're in.  We've bought a little split level, elevated bungalow with a finished basement.  It's a little bit closer to the kids' schools, a little bit closer to the church.  It's just up the hill from where we're living now, which should solve a few complaints from the kids, who really hated going up that huge hill twice every school day.  It has four bedrooms, the biggest bedrooms of all the houses we looked at, beautiful hardwood floors on the upper level, a nice rec room, and a ... (more)

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06 06 08 - 00:13

Post Conference Hangover

Okay, that doesn't mean what you think it means.   But it's descriptive all the same.  I went to the Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada last weekend, and I'm not sure I've recovered yet.  Four glorious, sleep deprived days of living in university residence, eating cafeteria food, attending up to ten hours of sessions in a day, and unwinding until the early hours at the, ahem, "library," and then getting up the next morning and doing it all again!

I am one of the world's great extraverts, so I really love Conference.  This year was no exception.  Since I'd just moved back into Maritime Conference after twenty years away, I really am just getting to know people and learning how they do things differently on the east coast.  One thing that's different is the number of people I ran into who knew me as a little girl, or were at my church after I left but heard all about me, or grew up with my mother. ... (more)

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